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THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>EXODUS</span>
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CHAPTER 23
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The Lord reveals his laws pertaining to integrity and godly conduct—Land shall rest during a sabbatical year—Israel shall keep three annual feasts—An angel, bearing the Lord’s name, shall guide them—Sickness shall be removed—Nations of Canaan shall be driven out gradually.
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Thou</span> shalt not raise a <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Slander.">false</a> report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/2a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR Thou shalt not follow the crowd to-do evil, neither speak up in a lawsuit, being influenced by the majority, to subvert justice.">Thou</a> shalt not <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Peer Influence.">follow</a> a multitude to <i>do</i> evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest <sup>c</sup><a href="ex/23/2c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Judgment."><i>judgment</i></a>:
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&#182; Neither shalt thou <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/3a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR favor; Lev. 19: 15.">countenance</a> a <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/3b" mark="b" type="I" title="JST Ex. 23: 3  . . .  wicked man  . . .; D&C 56: 17 (17-18).">poor</a> man in his cause.
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&#182; If thou meet thine <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/4a" mark="a" type="C" title="Deut. 22: 1; TG Enemies.">enemy</a>’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Honesty.">bring</a> it back to him again.
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If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Charity; TG Reconciliation; TG Service.">help</a> with him.
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Thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Injustice.">wrest</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Judgment.">judgment</a> of thy poor in his <sup>c</sup><a href="ex/23/6c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR charges, or lawsuit.">cause</a>.
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Keep thee far from a false <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR charge.">matter</a>; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Justification.">justify</a> the wicked.
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&#182; And thou shalt take no <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/8a" mark="a" type="R" title="HEB bribe; TG Bribery.">gift</a>: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
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&#182; Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
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But the <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sabbatical Year.">seventh</a> <i>year</i> thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Almsgiving; TG Poor; TG Welfare.">poor</a> of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat.  In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, <i>and</i> with thy oliveyard.
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Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sabbath.">seventh</a> day thou shalt <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Rest.">rest</a>: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
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And in all <i>things</i> that I have said unto you <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/13a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR take heed.">be</a> circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 23: 7 (6-8); Hosea 2: 17.">gods</a>, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 23; Deut. 16: 16.">Three</a> times thou shalt keep a <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 18 (18-26); Deut. 16: 16; Ezek. 46: 9.">feast</a> unto me in the year.
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Thou shalt keep the <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Passover.">feast</a> of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 18.">Abib</a>; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me <sup>c</sup><a href="ex/23/15c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE without offerings.">empty</a>:)
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 22.">feast</a> of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 16: 13.">ingathering</a>, <i>which is</i> in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in <sup>c</sup><a href="ex/23/16c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE the fruits thereof.">thy</a> labours out of the field.
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Three times in the year all thy <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 2: 1 (1-5).">males</a> shall appear before the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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Thou shalt not offer the <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 25.">blood</a> of my sacrifice with <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 12: 8.">leavened</a> bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
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The first of the <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 26; Lev. 2: 12; Deut. 26: 2.">firstfruits</a> of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God.  Thou shalt not <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/19b" mark="b" type="E" title="OR cook  . . .  ; i.e. Israel must not do such fertility-cult practices; Ex. 34: 26.">seethe</a> a kid in his mother’s milk.
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&#182; Behold, I send an <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 14: 19; Josh. 5: 14 (13-15); Isa. 63: 9.">Angel</a> before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
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Beware of him, and obey his voice, <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Provoking.">provoke</a> him not; for he will not <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/21b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Holy Ghost, Loss of.">pardon</a> your <sup>c</sup><a href="ex/23/21c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Transgression.">transgressions</a>: for my name <i>is</i> in him.
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But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 12: 3; D&C 8: 4; D&C 105: 15; D&C 136: 40.">enemies</a>, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
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For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
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Thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 20: 5.">bow</a> down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/24b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 33: 52 (52-53); Deut. 6: 19.">overthrow</a> them, and quite break down their images.
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And ye shall serve the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, and he shall bless thy <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/25a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Bread.">bread</a>, and thy water; and I will take <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/25b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sickness.">sickness</a> away from the midst of thee.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/26a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR None shall miscarry.">There</a> shall nothing cast their young, nor be <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/26b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Barrenness.">barren</a>, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
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I will send my <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 15: 16; Josh. 2: 9 (8-9); Josh. 24: 12; Alma 14: 26; D&C 64: 43; Moses 7: 17.">fear</a> before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
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And I will send <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 24: 12.">hornets</a> before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
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I will not <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 7: 22.">drive</a> them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/29b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR wild beasts.">beast</a> of the field multiply against thee.
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By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
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And I will set thy <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 1: 4 (3-4); 1 Kgs. 4: 24 (21, 24).">bounds</a> from the <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/23/31b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR Reed Sea.">Red</a> sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto <sup>c</sup><a href="ex/23/31c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE the Euphrates.">the</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="ex/23/31d" mark="d" type="A" title="Gen. 15: 18.">river</a>: for I will <sup>e</sup><a href="ex/23/31e" mark="e" type="A" title="Josh. 2: 24.">deliver</a> the <sup>f</sup><a href="ex/23/31f" mark="f" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 35 (32-38).">inhabitants</a> of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
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Thou shalt make no <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/32a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 12 (10-16); Deut. 7: 2.">covenant</a> with them, nor with their gods.
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They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/23/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 2: 3; Judg. 8: 27; Mosiah 7: 29.">snare</a> unto thee.
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